On 23 Jul 2002, Johan Danielsson wrote:

> If you have a somewhat working APM, no. Otherwise, possibly. I believe
> it has some utility on some Sony(?) laptops that lack APM.

There's a driver in current for the Libretto L2 (and probably other
toshiba laptops) that lets you control screen brightness, switch between
internal/external display and control the fan (off/auto) using the
standard Fn-number keys. Works well for me.

I think now we're waiting for someone to define the kernel/userland
interface, so we can start writing userland tools that tweak
power-saving modes and whatnot.

cjs
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